Chapeau Cuvée

Brewed by Brouwerij De Troch
Style: Lambic - Gueuze
Ternat-Wambeek, Belgium

Serve in Flute, Tumbler

375mL bottle, pours cloudy golden with a small head. Aroma is intensely tart / sourness with little else. Flavour is much the same, with an odd barnyard funk and lemon peel. Doesn’t really sit well, but it’s better than other Chapeau brews.

1999 37.5 cl bottle at the Kulminator, shared with afrantzell and Cameron. Cloudy golden color, 2 mm white head. Aroma of lemon peel, grapefruit, dust. Taste is sour throughout with decent funk. Nice.

A: The pour is a hazy straw color with a pretty impressive white head that has some moderately respectable retention. S: The nose is actually pretty decent. Definitely a fair amount of cork, but a good grassy and straw funk with some bright acidity in the form of lemon and green apple. T: The flavor is not the most complex for a gueuze, but still some solid earthy funk with flavors like grass and hay. Some musty funk and cork, too. Decently acidic and tart with a light lemon and green apple flavor. M: The body is medium with a high level of carbonation, certainly appropriate for a gueuze. D: Wow, this was surprisingly not horrible (pretty decent, actually). A little too much cork, but otherwise enjoyable.

Bottle.Hazy golden colour with thin white head.Aroma is sourish with taste of wood and corn,fruity and mild hoppy.Flavor is crispy and fresh.

Bottle. Gift from Pinball. Thanks mate! It pours deep golden with a medium white head. The aroma is distinct sour acidic with some citrus, cellar and barnyard. Very acidic sour flavour with loads of grape fruit and some caramel. Long fruity citric acidic finish. Wow that was dry and sour.

from Erzbierschof - cloudy blond-orange in colour and with a poor foam left; aroma of old apples, cellar and connamon; medium-bodied and with a low carbonation, sweet and gently acidic; a cheesy touch and more notes of old apples in the finish

Bottle. Slightly unclear golden with small white head. Aroma of apples, barnyard and cellar. Reminds me a bit of my sweaty handball clothes when I forgot to wash it. Or maybe when I washed it and forgot to put it out to dry? Very typical aroma and nothing unexpected. Sour flavour with mainly apples on the tongue. Has only a minimum of sweetness but is instead rather dry. It’s not a complex flavour, but the dry finish makes it a rather good thirst quencher while displaying some of the characteristics of lambic. A good introductory beer to the non-sweetened lambics and a beer I’d consider using in a tasting as a such.

vintage 1999

head: beige , fingerthick
colour: darker type of blond
smell: wheats , malts, bread, reine claude , brut champagne
taste: very sour start , more sour than the smell ! , bitter background probably from hops , casky , smokey , blue cheese , mid dry and grainy end , also some stinging peel bitterness ....